Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-10-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Neither wine. ale, porter or brandy
has ever been manufactured In Japan.
If thirty-two million people Joined
hands they would reach around the
world.
"A big church organ made of paper
is said to be the latest discovery In the
musical line.
"A deaf man was truck by loco
motive near Seward and had his hear
ing restored.
Type writing, stenography and
cooking are to be three new studies
added TO the tuition roll in the Louis
vile High School.
The manufacture of rubies has
reached such perfection that the arti-
fetal product is often as valuable as
the natural stone.
The most remarkable echo known
| is that on the north side of a church
Iof Shipley, Sussex, England. 1t re-
peats twenty one syllables.
Rutland, Georgia, has a resident
who presented siXty-two of his friends
and relatives with coffin. His idea
In doing SO is not given.
! "A suit in Paterson, New Jersey,
developed the charge that one grave
had been sold to three different pur-
chasers and used by each for burial
purposes.
"A Boston man not only didn't
have to pay anything for having a
tooth pulled, but he just recovered Sl5O
from the dentist-he pulled the wrong
tooth.
"A piece OF rock was thrown 2OOO
feet by blast in Michigan quarry,
and, in coming down, crashed through
a house, landing at the feet of an old
lady who sat knitting.
1t always bothers a frenchman
who is learning English to read one
! day that murder has been committed
and the next day that the murderer has
been committed.
Sixty thousand tons of coal, it is
estimated, are stolen every year from
cars in transit. At one station on the
Erie Road the thefts amount to about
thirty tons every night.
"A lady in Lexington, Georgia, has
a ball of yarn that was spun and woven
during the Revolutionary War, over
| 100 years ago, and yet the thread is
seemingly sound and whole.
During the barbarism OF the middle
ages plain and coarse food was the
order of the day in Europe, and when
costly daintieS began To he in vogue
they appeared Grst IN the mUnasteries.
The total production of coffee in
the world is about 600 eco tons to
$50, 600 tons, of which Brazil alone
produces between $40 900 and 3SO.OOO
tons and Java Gp,0OJ TO $1,000 tons.
Pat PIerce's wife saved her 4-year-
old boy, who had been bitten by a
moccasIn, by sucking the wound, giving
the child whisky and putting a tobacco
poultice on the wound. She lives near
Macon, Georgia.
The carat weight in use for
weighing gold and precious stones has
its origin in the seed OF the coral
flower OF the Abysiuuians. It was
called the carat seed and was used as
is the weight OF the present.
"A cherry tree of the white oxheart
variety on the premises OF John ca
pura, o. Oroville, California, bore this
season ?, $40 pounds OF fruit. 1t Is
eighteen years Old, is sixty feet high,
and is six feet in circumference.
-ShaVks are accused OF causing the
great scarcity of soft crabs in the
waters of the Chesapeake bay last
summer. They are unusually nu-
merous and bold, and may be seen any
day swimming On the flats exploring
the water grass Nth their blunt noses.
! While on the peninsula recently G.
II. Root, of New Smyrna, FLORIDA,
saw a snake SO wound in spider web
that it was powerless, while several
large spiders were busy bleeding it TO
death. The snake was about four feet
long.
| The modern trousers date their
| introduction TO general use with the
French revolution. The army of tie
Emperor Napoleon were tbs first Il
adopt the present style of leg cover
ing, after whom the whole world pat
termed, England being the last to
adopt it.
"A Boston man, who had the habit
of INTERPRETING the phrase Il believe
you," in his conversations, became an
embezzler and fed, not long ago, and a
HINT of his popularity was teiegrapEed
West. Within twenty-four hours a
Minnesota detective had the fugitive
in custody.
Some of the counterfeit silver dol
lars with which the Northwest has
been flooded by the gang Of counter
felters recently discovered near Pull.
man, Illinois, are Gnding their way
east. the centre OF lie coin IS filled
with white metal, while tue shell is Ol
silver. Ine character OF the coin, 1t l.
said, can only be detected by experts.
"A Tennessee farTiel, ,yuuso ,and
i vrvgla dor M tom
taken away from him, fell on his
knees in the field III prayer. Wher
he got up he seized the plOw with z
new grip, gave the old mule a vigorou!
lick, and before he had gone twenty
feet he turned up jug with over 500
IN gold and silver in it.
Washington Irving, in his early
youth. had longing to 90 to sea and
be pirate. He determined to max,
the attempt, but wisely decided to pre-
pare himself for it by preliminary ex
periences. He began by eating salt
pork. That made him sick. He ther
slept for a night or so ou hard boards
That made HIM sore. 1t was enough.
He had no more desire to 90 away,
Other boys who want TO capture men,
ofwar. or who desire to 20 West and
scalp Indians, would do well to imi
tate young IrvIng's example.
1t is not generally known that Il
Ethiopia people numbering abou
2UO,OU0 have the Old Testament II
Ethiopic version and still adhere rig.
idly TO the Mosaic ceremonies and laws
They are the children of Hebrew i'm
migrants who, In the time OF the grea
dispersion, settled ln Abyssinia an,
I faA xrYi.y nF
1t is likely that to the Assyrian
belongs the honor of first having mad,
, a seeding machine-more than so
+, years before the Christian era. Al
= opener and mould-bOsrd, made from
a round stfck Of u-ood apR N ruhicl